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  • in reply to: B-26 'Flak Bait' back in the air #1071895
    Al
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    Beautiful…

    in reply to: End of the Aussie F111 airframes.. #1071900
    Al
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    Very sad.
    Happier days at Fairford 1993…
    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/F-111-Fairford.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/Fairford-F-111.jpg

    in reply to: General Discussion #314330
    Al
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    Even they don’t know why they do things. The government scientist Dr Yamuka has proved women’s brains are the same size as a squirrels…

    in reply to: It's over, but why do I need to know "why" #1855675
    Al
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    Even they don’t know why they do things. The government scientist Dr Yamuka has proved women’s brains are the same size as a squirrels…

    in reply to: General Discussion #314843
    Al
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    So I take it that “respect” isn’t a word in your vocabularly? What exactly is wrong with treating fellow workers with respect? That is all that diversity training is about.
    Again you’re mixing PC with health and safety training – they have nothing to do with each other.

    I thought I recognised the condescending rhetoric – you were one of those faceless PC lecturers from my courses, weren’t you? Did you eventually find a humour transplant donor?
    If I were a cynic, I’d suspect most purveyors of ‘PC’ were also members of the shady ‘Common Purpose’ organisation, determined to undermine UK and western productivity…

    in reply to: P.C. ? #1856062
    Al
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    So I take it that “respect” isn’t a word in your vocabularly? What exactly is wrong with treating fellow workers with respect? That is all that diversity training is about.
    Again you’re mixing PC with health and safety training – they have nothing to do with each other.

    I thought I recognised the condescending rhetoric – you were one of those faceless PC lecturers from my courses, weren’t you? Did you eventually find a humour transplant donor?
    If I were a cynic, I’d suspect most purveyors of ‘PC’ were also members of the shady ‘Common Purpose’ organisation, determined to undermine UK and western productivity…

    in reply to: General Discussion #315000
    Al
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    As a Defence Civil Servant I had to attend scores of compulsory diversity, equality, and health and safety courses, which must have cost the taxpayer many millions of pounds. These courses were invariably hosted by pathetic pen-pushing PC (sorry for the alliteration!) humourless twats, types extremely skilled at avoiding actual productive work.
    Over the same decade there were no compulsory work-related courses to actually improve my professional scientific knowledge or managerial skills, which to me summed up the Labour government’s approach to the workplace.
    One thing is for sure – in a national emergency, like during a war for instance, all that nonsense would simply disappear…

    in reply to: P.C. ? #1856150
    Al
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    As a Defence Civil Servant I had to attend scores of compulsory diversity, equality, and health and safety courses, which must have cost the taxpayer many millions of pounds. These courses were invariably hosted by pathetic pen-pushing PC (sorry for the alliteration!) humourless twats, types extremely skilled at avoiding actual productive work.
    Over the same decade there were no compulsory work-related courses to actually improve my professional scientific knowledge or managerial skills, which to me summed up the Labour government’s approach to the workplace.
    One thing is for sure – in a national emergency, like during a war for instance, all that nonsense would simply disappear…

    in reply to: Elgin scrapyard revisited #1073742
    Al
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    As a serial Balliol cockpit collector, I would dearly love to know if there are any Balliol rear fuselage/tail sections, or indeed wings still in the Elgin yard, but it’s a long way to go on the off chance. If anyone knows what else is there besides a cockpit, I would be very interested to know.

    The only Sea Balliol part I recognised at the yard last year was the centre section, mentioned previously, with the control columns sticking out of the cockpit floor…
    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/SeaBalliol-1.jpg?t=1272696246
    Perhaps this was the same section I saw in the 1970s in the same yard, when it was more intact…
    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/BrumleyBraeUnknown.jpg?t=1270809378

    in reply to: General Discussion #315518
    Al
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    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip7.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip3.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip2.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip12.jpg

    in reply to: The Non-Aviation Photo Thread Part 3! #1856510
    Al
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    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip7.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip3.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip2.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip12.jpg

    in reply to: General Discussion #315522
    Al
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    It doesn’t get any better than this – a 25 centigrade, dry, empty road solo ride down the west side of Loch Ness to Fort William and Glen Nevis, then across through Kingussie and Grantown.
    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip11.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip10.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip8.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip5.jpg

    in reply to: The Non-Aviation Photo Thread Part 3! #1856511
    Al
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    It doesn’t get any better than this – a 25 centigrade, dry, empty road solo ride down the west side of Loch Ness to Fort William and Glen Nevis, then across through Kingussie and Grantown.
    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip11.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip10.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip8.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/LochNessTrip5.jpg

    in reply to: Met a Dambusters hero this evening… #1075593
    Al
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    On TV he always seems as you describe him – a great ambassador for a incredible generation…

    in reply to: Post your RN Phantom pics #1076388
    Al
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    More from Lossiemouth in the early 1970s…
    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/RN-Phantom-Lossiemouth.jpg

    http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm14/handshifterAl/Phantom-RN-Lossiemouth.jpg

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